Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:14:42 -0500 (EST)
From: louisgodena-AT-ids.net (Louis R Godena)
Subject: Re: M-I: Orthodoxies (note from moderator)


>...it has been Godena himself who has been more
>hostile than anybody. He has used this forum as a whipping post against the
>radical movement for over a year now. He is for a radical movement, just
>not the one that has existed historically. This is like saying you are for
>socialism, except that you hate the existing socialist countries and wish
>they would disappear. In either case, what is involved is a failure to view
>reality in a dialectical fashion. Since Lou Godena has not read much Marx
>by his own confession, I am not surprised he takes this tack.


This is precisely the kind of catechism-quoting that I spoke of earlier.
The "radical movement" (such as it currently exists) is not the pissoir of
any one individual, group or party.  Most of those who did most of the work
in service of that noble cause have left.  My own Communist party has
witnessed more than half a million souls in and out in the past thirty
years.  Given its current size, it is safe to say that the overwhelming
majority of members have voted with their feet *against* the same US
"radical movement" Mr Proyect finds so appealing.  

And the incessant sniping against countries of "Actually Existing Socialism"
lately lamented by Mr Proyect more properly belongs to *his* sordid
political lineage, rather than to my own.  It is a matter public record
that, as the Berlin Wall was passing into history, it was I who, as an
announced candidate of the Communist Party, was bringing *unprecedented*
levels of support to those goals we all ostensibly share in this forum.  

I repeat: this list is not the private domain of any sect or individual.
Attempts to make it so, regardless of the level of intimidation which marks
these efforts, will be dealt with accordingly.

Louis Godena,
co-moderator



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